Motivation Quote by Tony Greig

Greig’s line lands with the bluntness of a sideline observation that suddenly isn’t about sport at all. He’s describing a practical reporting problem, but the phrasing gives away the deeper reality: in Rwanda, “ordinary life” isn’t a neutral baseline, it’s a hard-won performance. The country “trying to get on” implies motion against resistance, a deliberate push forward that depends on boundaries around what gets reopened and who gets asked to relive it.

The key dodge is “some people just don’t want to get involved.” On paper, that sounds like everyday reluctance: shyness, privacy, fatigue. In Rwanda’s post-genocide context, it reads as self-protection. “Involved” can mean becoming a witness again, re-entering a story where speaking has social costs, political risks, or emotional aftershocks. It can also mean being drafted into someone else’s narrative - the foreign interview, the documentary frame, the tidy moral lesson. Greig, an athlete-turned-broadcaster, isn’t polishing the language; he’s admitting the friction between the outsider’s mission to extract testimony and the insider’s need to keep living.

There’s an ethical tell in “difficulty about interviewing,” too. The problem isn’t just access; it’s consent under pressure. When a society is rebuilding, silence can be a strategy, not a failure. Greig’s sentence, almost accidentally, maps the power imbalance: journalists arrive looking for accounts, while survivors and bystanders are trying to make the day-to-day feel survivable.